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SI.com: Arkansas Suspends Two Players For Socializing With Opponent's Cheerleaders

Arkansas senior cornerback Ryan Pulley and sophomore safety Kamren Curl's decision to be friendly with the enemy prior to the Razorbacks' 52-6 loss to Mississippi State last week can be taken as either a silly mistake or a valiant effort, depending on your perspective.

Former Razorbacks tight end D.J. Williams, who works at KARK-Channel 4, spotted Pulley and Curl socializing with Mississippi State cheerleaders before the game, taking pictures and chatting with spirit squad members.

On Monday, Arkansas head coach Chad Morris announced that Pulley and Curl were both suspended for this week.

"They will not be here today or yesterday or any part of this week for unacceptable behavior," Morris told reporters.

Arkansas football coach Chad Morris announced on Monday that defensive backs Kamren Curl and Ryan Pulley have been suspended from the team, according to Bo Mattingly of Sport & Story.

Former Arkansas player and current KARK-Channel 4 broadcaster D.J. Williams apparently saw Curl and Pulley taking pictures and talking with Mississippi State cheerleaders before Saturday's game, according to Bob Holt of Whole Hog Sports.

Morris called their actions completely unacceptable.

This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.

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Bleacher Report: Explaining How College Football's Early National Signing Day Works

Within the last decade, college football's national signing day has gained immense popularity. But in 2017, the NCAA instituted an early signing period and shook up the exciting event.

And this significant change might seem complicated.

Why can players sign in December? Now that it's allowed, why doesn't everyone send in their national letter of intent and render February's signing day mostly obsolete? Do people really still use fax machines for this?

It's not Plano East/John Tyler, but nothing is or ever will be. But damn if Gonzaga/DeMatha from Maryland's Washington Catholic Athletic Conference playoffs isn't at least a cousin or even sibling of high school football's most mind-boggling finish.

Gonzaga did that after entering the fourth quarter down 33-21, scoring three TDs in the last three minutes of the game to say alive. High school football seems like high school drugs: Unregulated, dangerously unbalanced, and with very high highs and very, very low lows.

Oh, but there are lessons here. Watching DeMatha celebrate what they thought was a game-winning kick for a solid minute?

USA Today: Misery Index Week 12: Even the wins aren't enjoyable for Oklahoma with this defense

Check out the top 10 teams in the country according to the Amway Coaches Poll following Week 12 of the college football season. USA TODAY Sports

We are almost at the end of the college football season, which means there's not much more misery to go around. By this point, there's more apathy than anger, which is understandable given the nature of fandom. When you root for a team that loses or disappoints week after week, a certain numbness and acceptance sets in over time, dulling the pain of ineptitude. By this point, most fans of teams that have massively underachieved are checked out and just ready for it to be over.

On Sunday, arguably the country's most entertaining conference, heavy on high-flying offenses, electric quarterbacks and dramatic last-second finishes -- and yes, light on defense -- added back one of the most of the entertaining figures from its past.

Les Miles has returned to the Big 12.

And with the man they call The Hat at Kansas, the Jayhawks will "play any sucker in this country." And, of course, won't be afraid to "let 'er rip."

In the first head coaching job of his career, Miles stayed at Oklahoma State for just four seasons, from 2001-2004. And yet before leaving for LSU, Miles constantly generated quotable phrases, upset Oklahoma twice and even traded verbal jabs with Bob Stoops.

Check out the top 10 teams in the country according to the Amway Coaches Poll following Week 12 of the college football season. USA TODAY Sports

A few early struggles by some of the top teams didn't alter the voting much in the Amway Coaches Poll. The top six teams remained unchanged, but one upset and a close call shuffled the rest of the top 10.

No. 1 Alabama continues to receive all but one of the first-place votes, though it took the Crimson Tide more than a half to put away The Citadel.

If you live east of El Paso, chances are you missed the end of the UCF-Cincinnati game and didn't even stick around for the kickoff of Arizona-Washington State.

So it might come as a surprise to wake up and see UCF and Washington State sitting ahead of Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU, and Ohio State, among others, in these weekly Power Rankings. But that's sort of the point.

You had to see it to understand it.

UCF smothered a ranked one-loss team in a game that wasn't even as close as the lopsided final score and Washington State's 41-point victory that ended after 2 a.

Kansas will announce Les Miles as the 34th head coach in program history on Sunday, per Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger. Current head coach David Beaty will be relieved of his duties after the Jayhawks' season ends on Nov. 23.

Miles enters a program that has tallied 10-straight losing seasons. The Jayhawks last reached a bowl game in 2008, losing eight-plus games in each of the past nine seasons.

Kansas will be Miles's third head coaching job since 2001. He spent 12 seasons at LSU from 2005-16, winning 114 games with a .770 winning percentage.

There's no collegiate tournament with more NBA draft intrigue than the 2018 Maui Invitational.

While it usually isn't difficult to drag executives out to sunny Hawaii in mid-November, the 2,400-seat Lahaina Civic Center is expected to be lined with most NBA general managers and high-level decision-makers this season thanks to a star-studded field that features Duke, Gonzaga, Arizona, San Diego State, Iowa State, Xavier, Auburn and Illinois.

Seeing three consecutive games in an intimate setting will allow scouts to get an excellent feel for a variety of NBA draft prospects, ranging from known stars to potential breakouts.

NCAAF Matchup Insights sorted by time

For the second straight season Purdue and Indiana will face off with high stakes. The winner will claim the Old Oaken Bucket and a bowl bid while the loser will stay home for the bowl season. This comes after both have had hot stretches this year. Indiana started the season 4-1, but has since lost five of its last six games. Purdue had its 0-3 star, but won five out of six before dropping its last two.

There is some good new, however. In 2002, 2011, 2012, and 2017 Purdue needed to win the Bucket in order to reach a bowl game.

Notre Dame owns the edge in the recent rivalry with USC, winning five of the last eight meetings outright, including a blowout last season in South Bend, and going 6-3 against the spread over the last nine encounters. In the 90th edition of one of the great rivalries in college football the Irish tangle with the Trojans on Saturday night at the Coliseum in Los Angeles.

College football point spread: The Fighting Irish opened as eight-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark. (Line updates and matchup report)

After a blowout win at Tennessee, Missouri returns home for the annual Battle Line Rivalry game against Arkansas with a great shot at getting to eight wins for the first time since 2014. Drew Lock, Paul Adams, Terry Beckner and others will play their last home game on Faurot Field and will look to take home a rock from the M, should Missouri win.

The ACC loves to force things, but we'll give them credit where it's due: pairing the Syracuse Orange and Boston College Eagles up on football field was not its worst idea.

Unlike the silly Atlantic/Coastal setup, forcing us to play Pitt in football each year, or forcing home-and-homes against the Eagles in hoops, SU and BC facing off on Thanksgiving weekend every year seemed like a smart idea. Syracuse football hasn't had a true RIVAL in football in many years, and Boston College is the closet thing we have to that in the ACC.

Deseret News: Cougar Insiders: The greatest games in BYU-Utah football history ... from BYU's perspective

Ravell Call, Deseret News

From last-second touchdown passes in the end zone, to missed field goals with the game in the balance, to sending legendary BYU coach LaVell Edwards out in style, Cougar Insiders Jeff Call, Dick Harmon and Brandon Gurney debate their picks as the best five games in BYU-Utah rivalry history. After they weigh in, see if you agree with their choices -- from a BYU perspective -- in the history of the rivalry, which writes a new chapter Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

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After clinching bowl eligibility in Saturday night's win over New Mexico, BYU now heads to Salt Lake City as nearly two-touchdown underdogs.

Vegas released the line for the Holy War and BYU opened as a 13.5-point underdog versus Utah.

The Utes are coming off a win at Colorado and have already clinched a spot in the Pac 12 title game versus either Washington or Washington State. They've played their last two games with backup QB Jason Shelley and backup running back Armand Shyne, but their offense hasn't seen much of a drop off in either win.

NORFOLK, Va. -- In the final game at Foreman Field, Old Dominion dominated VMI, 77-14, setting a new program record for points, on Saturday afternoon at S.B. Ballard Stadium.

Old Dominion (4-7) led 49-0 at the half and outgained VMI (1-10) in total yards, 509-288. The Monarchs also tied a program record with seven rushing touchdowns, including three from Matt Geiger and two from both Jeremy Cox, the Oyster Bowl MVP, and Kesean Strong.

NEW YORK -- Ian Book returned to the starting lineup for No. 3 Notre Dame and threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns as the Fighting Irish routed No. 12 Syracuse 36-3 at Yankee Stadium on Saturday to stay on target for a trip to the College Football Playoff.

The Fighting Irish held out Book from last week's home game against Florida State with a rib injury, and he wasn't missed as Notre Dame (11-0, No. 3 CFP) rolled with Brandon Wimbush at quarterback.

Notre Dame clearly wanted to be cautious with Book ahead of its trip to the Bronx to face high-scoring Syracuse (8-3, No.

Idaho was ready for a screen pass. It might not have been ready for what happened next.

Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks received the snap and faked the handoff to the running back.

Tight end Kyle Pitts ran a simple slant route at the same time and cut in front of his defender. That defender ignored Pitts and ran toward receiver Kadarius Toney, thinking he would make the stop on the screen.

He should've stayed with his man.

Franks hit Pitts square in the numbers and watched his teammate run the ball 52 yards to the end zone to put the Gators ahead 21-0.

Everything tonight turned on one play. With 9:14 left Purdue led 31-17 and Brennan Thieneman intercepted a tipped pass on 3rd and 9, returning it to the Wisconsin 32 yard line. That should have ended the game. Purdue would have worked some clock and likely kicked a field goal to make it a three-possession game with about 6 minutes left.

Then an orange flag fluttered to the turf. Navon Mosley was whistled for a very, very, very soft pass interference. I say soft because we saw our own receiver get tackled with the ball in the air way back in the season opener and the play wasn't called, resulting in an interception.

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